PenGun wrote:It was a balmy -9 C last night on Vancouver Island. A bit early for this much cold. More snow and it's easier on the animals. Bird feeding time, and I'll need a bag of goat food for the deer.

Lol, I was watching Roughies beat the Lions in colder weather @ Mosaic.

That's what my childhood memories are made of -- spending 45 minutes getting your snowsuit and all the other gear on. Of course you have to have snow to play in, and Southern Alberta got that too, in just a few hours on Monday. Old-fashioned prairie blizzard:

paulWTAMU wrote:And I was pissed to find it at 2 Fahrenheit this morning

That would be like -16 C

Heh, we don't put pants on until -20.

Here in Ottawa it was -4C today and I was out in jeans and a t-shirt for about 10 minutes. I was too lazy to put on the jacket.

The one really annoying thing about Ottawa is that it has some big temperature swings. Be -15C one day and +4C & raining the next day. All I ask is that is stay below -1C so the outdoor rinks can get nice and frozen and the hills can make snow. Is that too much to ask being in Canada?

Ahhh, don't feel bad. You have a lot more humidity to contend with and it makes it feel much colder then it is. Here in nomansland the humidity is usually pretty low (but we do have some wicked winds).

I have enough Finn in my blood that the cold here (-8C) doesn't bother me much... in fact, I've been wearing socks and sandals. In fact I hope we have a good cold winter so maybe a lot of the biting insects are killed off; last two winters were pretty balmy and we had a bumper crop of mosquitoes last summer.

We're at -5C (15F) at the moment. I'm 1/2 Swedish ancestry and have lived here for 39 years, and I still don't care for winter. I like the seasonal changes and a bit of snow, but not the bitter cold.

I remember one Sunday as a kid when it was -30F(-34C) and windchill was close to -80F (-62C) and we still went to church. Like 12 people showed up total. We also had 3 days of over 100F(38C) at O'hare airport in 2012. So I guess we have a pretty good range here too. Yet I have no desire to move any further north.

UberGerbil wrote:Yeah, I grabbed a similar screenshot for Southern Alberta yesterday:

That's what my childhood memories are made of -- spending 45 minutes getting your snowsuit and all the other gear on. Of course you have to have snow to play in, and Southern Alberta got that too, in just a few hours on Monday. Old-fashioned prairie blizzard:

Okay, last winter was my first living in Chicagoland and it definitely was a mild one (grew up in Indianapolis). This morning was 3F (-16C), now it's 8F, but feels like -9F (-22C). Hoping January doesn't get colder, but I'll still be stocking up on warm things to wear.

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